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Originally Posted by jibber
Here's a quick rundown. Palin wanted a police officer fired. That police officer had recently divorced her sister. It screams of conflict of interest, but it can not be proven that that was her actual motive. The illegal part happened when she and her husband bullied said police officer's superior to fire the guy. When he refused, she fired him. As governor, she has the right to fire and hire at will, that was not the issue. the issue was that she used her position of power to bully the police chief, and because of that, was found to have abused her power.
Now, I am not as cynical as you are with regards to politicians. Yes, every political system has been marred with some sort of scandal. Yet, as of yet, there is no strong evidence of Obama or Biden actually abusing their power as members of the senate. Just because you don't feel you can fix it, does not mean that you have to be apathetic about it.
Your idea of how to improve the system is a good one, and yet it takes time. You can't overhaul the system in one night just by wishing it. I'd like to know what you have heard attached to Obama and Biden in terms of abuse of power, because I certainly have heard no indication of it.
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Joe Biden's son is a lobbyist. That is a conflict of interest in my opinion. Also he is a lair. He's claimed Obama was not ready for president and now he claims he's America's best hope.
Obama has no charisma, no personality and has gone from a forward logic thinking realist (as he was in his Podcast 2005-2007) to a cliche sputtering puppet no different then second term Bush.
Yes I'm very jaded and cynical to the process but I've been through it too many times I worked with Carter's campaign and Reagan only to find fake promises and more of the same old same old.
I have to say I think your feeling on wealth distribution is noble, however m gripe is with it being forced. America is a country built on personal freedom. I have a colleague who between speaking engagements and his annual take home probably makes 5-6 million a year. Last Christmas he donated $500,000 to The Gates Foundation, this year he'll do the same for that or another worthy cause.
People are inherently good for the most part, government attracts the most corrupt and morally weak people because you need those attributes to succeed within the system. I want the people to use the money to help the less fortunate in a way they seem fit. Not have their money taken from them by essentially a corporation with a century long track record of failed initiatives and agendas. Especially when reality is most of that money is not used to move forward but to fix the mistakes of the past.
To anyone is the middle or lower-middle class of America who wishes those who've worked harder to achieve greater personal wealth should give the majority of their money to those less fortunate. I'd ask why you're not sending 60% of your check to impoverished nations who are much less fortunate then you?